Combined egg beater and dish



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W. B. HENDERSON.

COMBINED EGG BEATER AND DISH.

Patented May 13, 1884l iNrTnD STATES PATENT @Tricia VILLIAM BOVEN HENDERSON, OF POTTSTOVN, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED EGG BEATER AND DISH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,375, dated May 13, 1884.

Application filed March 12, 1881.

- which the following is a specification, reference Y closed.

being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to an egg beater and dish combined, in which eggs may be beaten and removed from the dish, which may afterward be used for baking and other purposes; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and 4particularly pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is a view in perspective of the device, partly open, arranged for use as an eggbeater,- and Fig. 2 is a view of the dish entirely open, the beater being removed.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a. designates the dish, which is preferably made of tin in two sections or halves, b b, hinged together at one side, so that the sections may be closed to form a closed dish or egg-receptacle, and provided at the other side with a staple on section b and a hinged clasp 011 the section b to hold the sections rIhe mouth of the section b is provided with a surrounding flange, c, which, when the sections are closed, enters the mouth of the section b and forms a tight joint all round, except at the notches d (Z, in the ends of the sections b b', which notches form the bearings for the shaft e of the wire beater f. The beater f is made of galvanized wire, bent angularly to form longitudinal arms f', from the ends of which extend the radial arms f2 f2,

the ends of the latter arms being soldered to the inner faces of disks g g, fixed to the shaft e of the beater, immediately inside of the Walls of the dish, when the beater is in place. The

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shaft c is provided with a crank, e', at one end, on which is secured the loose wooden handle e. The wire beater is to be revolved within the closed dish to beat the eggs, and the dish is to be opened and the beater lifted out to revmove the eggs after they have been beaten.

Among the advantages possessed by this beater' over others in the market are the following: It is a combined egg beater and dish, which may be used either for beating eggs, or may be used as an open-or closed dish for bak-V ing and other purposes, which will readily suggest themselves, thereby saving the eX- pense of an extra`dish. It is convenient in this form, and is therefore useful, in that it saves time iu baking. By its use eggs may be beaten stiff quicker than by any other beater now in the market. It cannot get out of order, and a child can use it equally as well in beating eggs as an experienced baker could. It will beat one egg or one dozen eggs, and beat the latter nearly as quickly as the former. It maybe easily cleaned by removing the beaterv from the dish. The beater, being made of galvanized wire, will not corrode, as the castiron beaters do, when in contact wit-l1 the albumen of the eggs.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The sectional dish having thesections hinged together, and provided with end notches and suitable fastenings, and the removable galvanized-wire beater, adapted to be rotated within the sectional dish, substantially as specified;

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM BOWEN HENDERSON, Vitnesses: j

WILLIAM PEoPLEs, W. H. ANTRIM. 

